Senior Full Stack Engineer

The Job

As a Full Stack Engineer, you'll be working with the product team focusing on building, releasing, and testing new product features. Additionally, we're always looking for ways to improve our codebase to make it more performant and easier to maintain.

Currently, our entire platform is built as a majestic Rails monolith, using Vue.js with Typescript on the front-end.

More details about our tech stack:

• Testing is done with RSpec & Capybara
• Continuous integration and deployment are done with CircleCI
• MySQL and PostgreSQL for our main databases
• ScyllaDB for our activity feeds
• Redis for session storage, queue management, and caching
• ElasticSearch for full-text search
• undefined using Containers orchestrated with Kubernetes and Helm
• Service and performance monitoring is done with DataDog and NewRelic
• Infrastructure managed with Terraform
• Cloudflare and Fastly as CDN

About you

We're looking for someone who has proven experience building and maintaining large production-level Ruby on Rails applications in the past.

Ideally, you have experience:

• Working with a modern front-end framework (ideally Vue)
• Writing semantic Javascript and (or) Typescript
• Working with Redis, MySQL or PostgreSQL
• Writing unit and integration tests using RSpec and Capybara

Additionally, since we're 100% remote, we:

• Highly value strong written communicators
• Require three hours overlap any time between 10 AM and 6 PM CET

About Us

FetLife is the largest kinky social network on this side of the Milky Way. We:

• Have over 10 million members and growing
• Grew 100% by word-of-mouth
• Serve over 1.5 billion requests a day

You can find our team and core values here.

Pay & Benefits

We use a standardised salary calculator for each position to ensure we are competitive, fair, and consistent. For this specific role, the rate is between $115k - $170k USD / year.

Additionally, we offer:

• Paid time off:
  • 2 weeks vacation
  • 5 statutory holidays (e.g. Easter & Thanksgiving)
  • 2 weeks during Christmas
  • 4-day workweeks during the summer months (July & August)
• Annual company retreat (e.g. Malaga, Miami, Vancouver, and Montreal)
• Annual anniversary gift (200$ USD for every year with us, e.g. 4th anniversary is $800)
• Monthly streaming music subscription reimbursement
• Fully paid maternity and paternity leave